Quick explanation of the VCL commands?

[Lennart Regebro]

On 11/10/06, Gaute Amundsen <gaute at pht.no> wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 00:01, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> > On 11/9/06, Anton Stonor <stonorn at giraffen.dk> wrote:
> > > Also, have a look at PHK's presentation -- the diagram on page 20 is
> > > helpful in understanding of what is going on:
> >
> > Yeah, super, thanks!
> >
> > Now all I need to know is what the difference between pass and pipe is...
>
>
> http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/svn/trunk/varnish-doc/en/varnish-architecture/article.xml
>
> 1.3.6 Pass and Pipe modes
>
>           Requests which the can not or should not be handled by
>           Varnish can be either passed through or piped through to
>           the backend.
>
>           Passing acts on a per-request basis and tries to make the
>           connection to both the client and the backend reusable.
>
>           Piping acts as a transparent tunnel and whatever happens
>           for the rest of the lifetime of the client and backend
>           connection is not interpreted by Varnish.
>

Aha...! Clever. Thanks for the answer!

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